Beautiful

[SSGrower]

Something cool, a new angle on why biomolecules are of just one handedness.

Cosmic Rays May Explain Life’s Bias for Right-Handed DNA

Cosmic rays may have given right-handed genetic helixes an evolutionary edge at the beginning of life’s history.

www.quantamagazine.org

Digesting this.
A plant I worked at made peptides, some of the processes were done with deliberate timing of lunar cycles when production would allow. This timing resulted in a higher rate of production of the isomer they were trying to make. All this over my head I was just the safety guy trying to reduce exposures to the nasties. Its a right hander's world seems logical there is a left hander's world.

 

[Milovan1]

 

[too larry]

View attachment 4611894

Mt Shasta and a dirty windshield.

A friend of mine lives in the hills near Shasta. Her old man worked in Forestry, and that brought him from Shasta to Bristol Florida. She worked with me a few years before he got transferred back home.

 

[too larry]

I can only carry so much guilt before I buckle under. Last week I came into work for three days and worked on the yards. (although I drew the line at scraping, sanding and painting) Everyone here takes over a hour for lunch, and it takes about 10 minutes to eat. So I walked down to the creek off the side yard. If I hadn't taken my little hiking rod and reel out of the car for fishing off the dock at the river house, I would have tried my luck. Instead I just had a safety meeting and listened to music.

 

[too larry]

The log to the left is the easy path to the creek. This was my first time getting into these woods since the hurricane.

 

[cannabineer]

Digesting this.
A plant I worked at made peptides, some of the processes were done with deliberate timing of lunar cycles when production would allow. This timing resulted in a higher rate of production of the isomer they were trying to make. All this over my head I was just the safety guy trying to reduce exposures to the nasties. Its a right hander's world seems logical there is a left hander's world.

I have done chiral (handed molecules) work in grad school and at work. I must admit: I never heard of an effect from lunar or other planetary cycles.

 

[lokie]

I can only carry so much guilt before I buckle under. Last week I came into work for three days and worked on the yards. (although I drew the line at scraping, sanding and painting) Everyone here takes over a hour for lunch, and it takes about 10 minutes to eat. So I walked down to the creek off the side yard. If I hadn't taken my little hiking rod and reel out of the car for fishing off the dock at the river house, I would have tried my luck. Instead I just had a safety meeting and listened to music.

View attachment 4616515

Please tell us it was one of these.

 

[too larry]

Please tell us it was one of these.

I have two. One a dock buster or some such my buddy gave me. It's a solid rod about 24". The other one is telescopic in nature. I've had the rod since my biking days (30 years ago), but the reel is only a couple three years old.

 

[Milovan1]

 

[jerryb73]

 

[raratt]

View attachment 4617939

Is that Nessie?

 

[jerryb73]

Is that Nessie?

Potentially.

 

[jerryb73]

 

[cannabineer]

View attachment 4618157

Ok “Tennessie” then

 

[Chunky Stool]

 

[cannabineer]

View attachment 4619088

poor thing looks tired already

 

[DarkWeb]

View attachment 4619088

I like it!

 

[Milovan1]

 

[lokie]

 

[GreatwhiteNorth]